Ulrich Lunscken

Hans-Ulrich Lunscken (born February 14, 1952 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) , † May 23, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat . From August 2005 to March 2007 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cuba .

Life

After graduating from the Old High School in Oldenburg in 1971 , Lunscken studied law and economics at the Universities of Freiburg , Bonn and Cologne . Since 1972 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . He then began his career as a research assistant for the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag .

After joining the Foreign Service in 1980, he was employed in the Foreign Office in the Department for North America and in the Department for European Security and Defense Policy, at the German Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva as a human rights officer and at the embassy in Poland as an economic officer as well as head of the legal and consular department.

Later he was Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Senegal , Permanent Representative of the Head of the Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Norway .

From 2002 to August 2005 he was inspector of the Foreign Service in the central department of the Foreign Office .

Until 2003, Lunscken was in Central Department 1 dealing with issues relating to the control of funds at the German diplomatic missions abroad.

In August 2005 he became Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cuba. Lunscken was dismissed as ambassador in spring 2007 due to illness. On June 8, 2008, the Foreign Office published an obituary in the Tagesspiegel published in Berlin , according to which Lunscken died “suddenly and unexpectedly” in Berlin.

Hans-Ulrich Lunscken left behind his wife and two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 129 , 1429